Quote Originally Posted by Les Young View Post
In the scenario I mentioned it was at night in the summertime & we were flat catching bass on jigs & texas rigs. What is your opinion of what causes a shut down in this very situation as it has happened several times to us on Green River Lake & I've called it & they shut down right after the cloudline passed over head & it remained bad fishing all night. What would you have done differently ??? Thanks
Not sure if I would have done anything differently but probably would have started working shadow edges in this situation but hard to tell without having been there myself and knew all the conditions. I would suspect you were working a crayfish pattern with the lures you were using but not sure. Crayfish would be my primary pattern at night during the summer. Probably the fish were feeding heavily under the lower light conditions of the cloud cover and the lighter conditions of the clouds having disappeared exposed both prey and preditor and they reacted to this change in the environment....without having been there I can only guess...but one thing I do know, fish do not feed all the time and if they are feeding heavily, sooner or later they are gonna get full and a change in their environment that would have a negative impact on their ability to easily attack prey can certainly slow down or shut off a feeding spree.